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DeFi Conference 2020 Delivers an All-Star Speaker Lineup

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The DeFi Conference 2020 hosted by Bitcoin Events, is a feature-packed free event for anyone to attend and learn about the opportunities that decentralized finance offers to individuals and organizations alike. 

Decentralized finance (more commonly known as ‘DeFi’) is growing rapidly, spawning investment and attention from many corners of the finance world. The world of traditional finance is on the brink of an evolution as cracks in traditional finance are beginning to widen.

This one-day event is jam-packed with content: two tracks and over 30 global speakers from the most prominent companies in the DeFi space, covering topics such:

Reinventing banking with DeFi

Importance of high quality data in DeFi

Macro finance and technological trends contributing to the growth of DeFi

The African context and DeFi adoption

Leveraging order book data to measure liquidity

Cryptocurrency investments 

DeFi lending platforms

The future of stable coins

The importance of privacy and security in DeFi

DeFi risk management approaches 

Regulatory and compliance issues

The future of DeFi

To summarise, the event will explore the current DeFi landscape and players, its impact on the world of traditional finance and the future of DeFi.

The event offers dedicated online spaces for people to network and share business ideas, exhibition opportunities where companies can showcase their products and services with the audience and an opportunity to engage directly with speakers. 

Meet some of the amazing speakers!

Global innovators and thought leaders are part of the exciting speaker lineup. These include:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STANI KULECHOV

FOUNDER AND CEO OF AAVE

Stani is the Founder and CEO of Aave, an open source and non-custodial money market protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets. Stani was studying law at the University of Helsinki when he first got into Ethereum and he started exploring how it could impact the traditional financial system.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALEX MASHINSKY

FOUNDER & CEO OF THE CELSIUS NETWORK

Alex is the Founder and CEO of the Celsius Network which lets users earn interest on their crypto and instantly borrow against it.

Alex is also one of the inventors of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol). He is a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, raising more than $1 billion and exiting over $3 billion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JONAS LAMIS

FOUNDER AND CEO AT STAKERDAO

Jonas is the Founder and CEO at StakerDAO, a platform for governing financial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MIKO MATSUMURA

CO-FOUNDER OF EVERCOIN AND GENERAL PARTNER WITH GUMI VENTURES

Miko is the Co-founder of Evercoin, a Silicon Valley based cryptocurrency exchange.

Other speakers include:

Ambre Soubiran - CEO of Kaiko

Lex Sokolin - Global Fintech Co-Head at ConsenSys

Gustav Arentoft - Business Development (Europe, SEA, Africa), Maker Foundation

Itamar Lesuisse - Co-founder and CEO of Argent

Alex Batlin - Founder and CEO of Trustology

On Yavin - Founder and CEO of Cointelligence

Alex McDougall - Co-founder of Bicameral Ventures

Dr. Friederike Ernst - COO at Gnosis

Richard de Sousa - Founder and CEO of AltCoinTrader

Luca Consentino - Product and Go to Market at Oasis Labs

Rebecca Mqamelo- Head of Growth at Zerion

Jorge Sebastiao - CTO, Advisor, Executive Board Member of the Government Blockchain Association (GBA)

George Samman - Advisor at Kadena and Fantom

Andrey Bugaevski - Project Lead at Incognito Chain

Read more about the speakers here and their topics of discussion here.

Sponsors and Partners of the DeFi Conference 2020

Aave, a well-known lending protocol that enables users to lend and borrow a diverse range of cryptocurrencies using both stable and variable interest rates, is onboard as a Partner of the event. 

AltcoinTrader, a South African based cryptocurrency exchange, StakerDAO a platform designed for governing financial assets in a secure, decentralized, and compliant manner and Dash, a cryptocurrency designed to ensure user privacy and anonymity, are the Gold Sponsors of the event. 

‘The DeFi Conference 2020 is an excellent opportunity for individuals in the industry, and those that are interested to know how DeFi is set to disrupt traditional finance, to learn about the latest DeFi trends and opportunities.

It offers fantastic networking and interactive benefits including access to some of the most-well-known people in the DeFi space.’ Sonya Kuhnel, Director at Bitcoin Events.

 Register for the DeFi Conference 2020 here

About Bitcoin Events

Bitcoin Events are the organizers of the first and longest running blockchain event in Africa, the annual Blockchain Africa Conference, hosted in South Africa since 2015. 

Over 2000 attendees from 35 countries and 170 global speakers have been part of Bitcoin Events’ conferences.

For more information on the DeFi Conference 2020 visit our website at www.bitcoinevents.co.za or email us at mailto:info@bitcoinevents.co.za.

Disclaimer: This is a partnered event

The post DeFi Conference 2020 Delivers an All-Star Speaker Lineup appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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